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  I'm including this story from 'My Miracle Tea" today as it has been a life saver for me and my two sisters!  We are all 3 of us in our 80's.  I take this every day, and so do both my sisters.  I've taken it to some of my children when they had an operation, and had trouble getting their bodies to work again after being under a strong anesthetic.  You make 2 tea bags into a concentrate, and take 1/4 to 1/2 cup daily, in a whole cup of water.  You will feel better immediately!  I have so much confidence in it, I get an auto monthly shipment!     This is from the newsletter they send often.  It's about the original 9 -- 11.  HEALTH LESSONS FROM 9-11, HURRICANE IDA and KATRINA None of us will forget the morning of 9-11.  Twenty years later, it's still very fresh in my mind.  As I mentioned above, we lived just outside Washington D.C.   School had started for our children just the week before.  The skies were i...

Friday, September 05 2014 The Quitter As Hero By Darla Isackson We as a people seem to have a deeply engrained belief in the nobility of perseverance. Winston Churchill’s famous words “Never, never, never give up” have been canonized in the minds of many. Yet giving up something good for something better is what life is all about. The book  Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why , by Laurence Gonzales includes that thought-provoking quote, “A secret to resilience is quitting.” The author explains, “It’s a matter of looking at yourself and assessing your own abilities and where you are mentally, and then realizing that it’s better to turn back and get a chance to do it again than to go for it and not come back at all. We are a society of high achievers, but in the wilderness, such motivation can be deadly.” Such motivation can be deadly spiritually as well. The thesis of this article is that appropriate quitting is vital to our ...